Comments on: Live.com and Yahoo! bulk up for local search brawl

By: lodine

lodine — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 12:58:57 +0000

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By: Google Local Adds Click to Call » JenIT

Google Local Adds Click to Call » JenIT — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 12:01:51 +0000

[...] Windows Live Local has offered click to call for some time. Local search is a potentially lucrative space that’s seeing a lot of innovation right now. Note also that the Google Local logo includes the outline of Africa, ironic given how awful that and other map search programs’ coverage of that continent is. [...]

By: Google Local Ads Click to Call

Google Local Ads Click to Call — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 16:57:07 +0000

By: Robert Grant

Robert Grant — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 00:58:16 +0000

Sorry, this is my first post on TechCrunch. The urls in my comment above did not work. The web2.0 sites I mentioned are Yelp.com and Rrove.com. There are more out there, like plazes, and prototyping sites like tagzania.

By: Robert Grant

Robert Grant — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 00:49:56 +0000

Competition among these big players will definitely drive more useful functions for local search. For myself, I still think local search powered by social networking has more potential, just like how Wikipedia has been growing so quickly and become so useful. I have been using Yelp.com when I need to research Bay area businesses. My recent favorite is Rrove.com, which allows people all over the world to add places and create collections to shared with friends. It automatically pulls flickr photos, wikipedia articles and local events along with user reviews. I can see sites like this have the potential to provide richer experiences in long run because it is powered by us, the Internet community. The openness of web 2.0 can provide a lot of creative usages of these services.

By: Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Google Local Ads Click to Call

Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Google Local Ads Click to Call — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 18:30:42 +0000

By: Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Topix Raises $15m More to Bring

Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Topix Raises $15m More to Bring — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 09:08:23 +0000

[...] I look forward to seeing more exciting things come from this company. Local search is becoming increasingly competitive, but when it comes to news and features, Topix is a key site to watch. Topix [...]

By: TechCrunch en français » Yelp lève $10 millions pour son service d’actualités locales

Thu, 05 Oct 2006 07:26:16 +0000

[...] Yelp annonce avoir 1.5 millions de visiteurs uniques le mois dernier, soit 2 fois le trafic de janvier. Le journalisme local est un secteur très concurrentiel : la start up Judy’s Book est là mais aussi les géants du web s’y sont lancés. Alexa indique que Yelp à 2 fois plus de traffic que Judy’s Book qui avait levé 8 millions de dollars avec Mobius Venture Capital Ignition Partners et Ackerley Partners l’an dernier [...]

By: Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Yelp secures $10 million more for local reviews

Thu, 05 Oct 2006 06:05:59 +0000

[...] Yelp is reporting 1.5 million unique visitors last month, twice the traffic it saw in January. Local reviews are a valuable activity online and Yelp faces competition from startups like Judy’s Book and local search with reviews included from all the big players. Alexa, for what it’s worth, finds twice as much traffic for Yelp as it does for Judy’s Book. Judy’s Book raised $8 million from Mobius Venture Capital, Ignition Partners and Ackerley Partners at the end of last year. [...]

By: Citizenbay to pay local news contributors » JenIT

Citizenbay to pay local news contributors » JenIT — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 15:33:04 +0000

[...] Years after it’s grown passé to say the web makes the world smaller, there’s now a strong case to be made for the importance of local information on the web. (See the big guys fighting over local search.) Citizenbay is a well constructed site that looks like it could make a good run on the local social news milieu. That space could quickly become very crowded, though, and it’s hard to feel too confident in any new site of this type. Citizenbay is currently accepting emails for notification of launch in the coming weeks. [...]

By: At Vision Quest » Blog Archive » Citizenbay to pay local news contributors

Tue, 19 Sep 2006 00:25:10 +0000

By: TechCrunch en français » Citizenbay lance le journalisme citoyen local rétribué (Fr et US)

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 04:53:14 +0000

[...] Alors que le Web existe depuis des années il n’y a toujours pas eu de réussite dans le secteur des informations locales même si les géants se battent pour y arriver. CitizenBay est suffisamment bien pensé pour se faire une place dans ce secteur qui pourrait vite devenir très encombré bien qu’il soit à ce stade impossible de prédire son avenir. [...]

By: VentureBeat » Roundup: MobiTV, Loopt, Xuqa, Google embraces TurnHere

VentureBeat » Roundup: MobiTV, Loopt, Xuqa, Google embraces TurnHere — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 08:44:33 +0000

[...] Yahoo Local revamps — It now lets you write reviews and submit ratings for local businesses, save your favorite locations, view local businesses on one map to see what’s around you and so on. (See more here, which includes a look at Microsoft Live Local Search’s improvements too.) [...]

By: News Pays « Ray-Deo

News Pays « Ray-Deo — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 06:35:57 +0000

By: natp

natp — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 21:42:11 +0000

I have been trying to search on Live Local for the past week. No luck. It seems to me that MS has taken a big step backward, since now you have to put in a what and a where to do the search to get to the map. I would just like to go to the map, if I choose to.

It’s a piece.

Google all the way.

By: Steven Sibulkin

Steven Sibulkin — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 19:04:59 +0000

Thanks. These new features and models are great. However, the truly significant functional leap will occur when there exists greater connection of search to offline behavioral and transactional data.

Since these local models are largely about how to order the world of (local in this case) information, consider for a minute the improved level of customization, predictability and presence of outputs.

Though difficult, the network density of City-based and local programs (like those in London for instance) are a likely target for the emergence of that business model, as I’ve written about here:

http://www.womm.com/womm/2006/.....#trackback

By: Techcrunch » Blog Archive » CitizenBay to pay local news contributers

Techcrunch » Blog Archive » CitizenBay to pay local news contributers — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 17:30:25 +0000

[...] Years after it’s grown passé to say the web makes the world smaller, there’s now a strong case to be made for the importance of local information on the web. (See the big guys fighting over local search.) CitizenBay is a well constructed site that looks like it could make a good run on the local social news milieu. That space could quickly become very crowded, though, and it’s hard to feel too confident in any new site of this type. CitizenBay is currently accepting emails for notification of launch in the coming weeks. [...]

By: Dave Gilbert

Dave Gilbert — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 14:40:46 +0000

I think already online local searches are playing a bigger role than local newspapers and over a period of time this Yahoo! vs. Microsoft vs. Google competition will make these local nespapers irrelevant

By: Tech Industry » Live.com and Yahoo! bulk up for local search brawl

Tech Industry » Live.com and Yahoo! bulk up for local search brawl — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 02:10:14 +0000

[...] A hefty list of new features were added to both Microsoft â??s Live Local Search yesterday and just tonight to Yahoo! Local. As both rivals get stronger, you canâ??t help but wonder whatâ??s going to come after coupons for Googleâ??s local search. Both Yahoo! and Live Local are looking good.read more | digg story [...]

By: Microsoft Live Local Search and Yahoo! Local on Feature adding sphere » Dee’s-Planet! Blog

Thu, 14 Sep 2006 22:07:52 +0000

[...] Yahoo! Local — now lets search users build personal collections of search results, tag locations, write reviews, see recommendations, upload pictures and build sideshows all in a dashboard based service called “my local.” Photos you tie to a particular location and mark public are visible to other users when they look at the location’s profile page on Yahoo! Local search. read more… [...]

By: Eric Eldon

Eric Eldon — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 20:40:03 +0000

As somebody working on a startup that’s building software tools for student and community newsrooms, I’m worried that local search will be the beginning of the end of local newspapers just like search + contextual ads were for national newspapers.

I say that because revenues for national newspapers (and other media) are already way down, but local news has stayed strong — stayed strong because they have so far done the best job of providing information that local communities want.

The question to me: will Yahoo, MS or Goog be able to get so deep into people’s local communities that the local newspaper becomes irrelevant?

By: andreas04: close to attraction

andreas04: close to attraction — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 18:08:29 +0000

[...] Read all the new features HERE! [...]

By: TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » Live.comとYahoo!、地域検索決戦に向けて巨大化

TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » Live.comとYahoo!、地域検索決戦に向けて巨大化 — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 17:45:26 +0000

[...] ［原文へ］ Live.com Yahoo! [...]

By: kaveh

kaveh — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 17:26:27 +0000

Also, check out the new mobile version of Live, including search ( & ).

By: Local search heats up - SpaBoom Blog

Local search heats up - SpaBoom Blog — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 17:01:57 +0000

[...] Just in the last two days, both Yahoo! Local and Microsoft’s Live Local have added a bevy of enhancements, trying to catch up with Google (details on TechCrunch). In terms of adding complexity, I think they’ve succeeded. [...]